scott wrote:
> Sure, but there simply aren't the people willing to do the work for 
> free. Look how long it's taken from 3.6 to 3.7 beta, what hope is there 
> of a complete rewrite for the GPU before 2020?
> 
>  From my very limited knowledge of OpenCL it seems like POV would need 
> to be rewritten from scratch to use it.

In other words, 'not for 3.7'.  3.7 is still building the things that 
will be needed for an eventual support of GPU rendering.  They need to 
be tested and verified and streamlined.

Maybe 4.0 will be able to use a bit of the GPU.  Maybe 5.0.  Maybe GPUs 
will become like what FPUs were, part of the main chip itself instead of 
a separate element.  Who knows?  That's at least ten years off... *wink*

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